There’s a blast from the past in the Forum this week, or a Zombie question, if you want to look at it another way.
Back in 2011, an anonymous reader (or someone who called themselves Anonymous) asked who was responsible for a leaking toilet – the lot owner or the owners corp?
Back then a young lawyer called Simone Balsara – a distant relative of the late Freddy Mercury, if you must know – answered. Simone then worked for a firm called Teys Lawyers, a company that has since ceased to be.
Simone is still around, though. Now Simone Kasad, she is Director and Principal Lawyer with a company called Building Bylaws which helps strata schemes draft by-laws (we assume) since that was her specialty.
Anyway, fast forward 13 years and someone has clearly used our pretty efficient search function to find an answer to the leaky toilet question. The search option is greatly underused and should be your first option when you have a question – you don’t even need to be logged in to use it.
Thankfully, this question features one aspect of strata law in NSW that hasn’t changed in all the years we’ve been flat chatting, and you can find the answer HERE.
Elsewhere on the Forum
Can my committee just go ahead and order work to be done once they have approval in principle but without quotes? That’s HERE.
Which part or parts of a window are common property? That’s HERE.
The strata manager is supposed to provide the OC with a record of their activities every year. What can you do when they don’t? That’s HERE.
How to ask and answer questions
Anyone can read our posts at any time, but you have to be registered to ask or answer questions. However, there are so many easy ways you can search, access, ask questions and reply to others’ queries once you have registered using the green “register and sign in …” box on this page.
The best way may be to click on “Forum: Your Qs & A’s” on the top menu bar or on the drop-down menu (three lines) on the screen on phones and tablets, under the Strata Choice ad. Then click on the topic title that interests you, and off you go.
Alternatively, you can click on the new “Latest Qs and As” Forum button on the top right of a computer screen or the link on the “hamburger” menu on a phone.
Or look at the list of “Your latest questions and answers” under the ads on the right of the page on a computer screen. Or at the bottom, after the ads and stories, on a tablet or phone.
finally, you can go “old school” and go to the Forum Home Page and work your way through the topics there.
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